THE apartments and tourist apartments -they have different regulations- are clearly booming in Cordoba, as in the rest of Spain; especially in the case of the first. experimental statistics of INE aid know the scope of its strong growth: this public body published this Tuesday the indicators relating to 2023 for the aforementioned types of accommodation, as well as Inns and rural houses with data from the main digital platforms that manage these short stays.
This statistic only provides the number of nights and for all these accommodations, it does not distinguish, for example, between an apartment and a hostel. And what we can see is that last year, The capital has exceeded one million stays for the first time in such places to spend the night. He went to 1.03 million overnight stays.
This figure represents a 30.4% increase compared to that reached in 2022 (792,000), when the tourism sector was recovering from the Covid shock. In other words, 241,000 additional people were counted.
Better numbers than before Covid
Unlike what is happening in hotels, which are still struggling to close a year with better indicators than before the pandemic, tourist apartments, apartments for the same use, rural lodgings and hostels in the capital They blew up the 2019 indicator last yearThey exceeded it by 46.7%, recording 329,000 additional overnight stays.
These accommodation options were already experiencing a growing trend before the coronavirus outbreak. In 2018 (the first exercise of this experimental survey), they counted 568,000 stays. To increase this figure to 704,000 in 2019which meant a 24% more. This progression was abruptly interrupted in 2020, with the arrival of Covid. That year, the decline reached almost 69% and the number of stays fell to 221,000. From then on, a steady recovery began and continues.
At year-on-year growthcontributed to both national and foreign travelers. The Spanish generated 628,000 overnight stays in tourist apartments and houses, as well as in the other accommodation establishments analyzed. This figure represents an increase of 28.4% compared to 2022. For their part, foreign travelers generated 406,000 overnight stays in accommodation. This figure was 33.7% higher than that recorded a year earlier.
